Shear Bond Strength of Self-Adhesive Versus Conventional Flowable Composites: An Study.

Aim: As an emerging yet underexplored innovation in dentistry, self-adhesive flowable composites (SAFCs) represent a promising and enduring advancement in the dental material technology. Our study aims to evaluate the shear bond strength of two SAFCs and the bonding of conventional flowable composite (CFC) to permanent dentin.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-six teeth were embedded in acrylic blocks, with the occlusal third removed to expose the underlying dentin.

Population specific dental age estimation model for South Indian children based on normalized open apices method: A cross sectional study.

Age estimation plays significant role in forensic science especially when there is unavailability of the information concerned to the deceased. Use of population specific models of age estimation results in questionable evidence legally when tried on Indian children. The present study was designed to assess the accuracy of Cameriere's Italian and Balwant Rai Indian model on South Indian children and to derive and validate a novel model for south Indian children by considering a sample from a larger geographical area with a greater sample size of 2500.

Cheiloscopy in gender determination: A study on 2112 individuals.

Background: Lip prints are seen to remain the same for an individual throughout his/her life. Cheiloscopy can be used as an effective tool in the identification of the persons from pieces of evidence that may be left behind from lip prints.

Aim And Objectives: The aim of the current research was to evaluate the predominant lip groove pattern among Calicut population, Kerala.

Establishing a new staging system for oral submucous fibrosis and correlation of the proposed staging system to traditional histopathological grading: A clinico-histopathological study.

Background & Objectives: Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a potentially malignant disorder of the oral cavity leading to reduction in mouth opening. Mouth opening assessment is used as one of the methods to assess the severity of the disease. In this study the normal maximum mouth-opening capacity of an individual is considered in assessing the reduction in mouth opening.

A correlation between oral mucosal lesions and various quid-chewing habit patterns: A cross-sectional study.

Background And Objectives: Quid-chewing habit is a common and old tradition in India. It causes various potentially malignant disorders. Therefore, a study was undertaken to analyze the association of various quid-chewing habit patterns and different oromucosal lesions.